"The beauty of the garden is intoxicating, heady, fulfilling on many dimensions. The blossoming of flowers, vegetables, herbs, fruit, and trees is a culmination, a reward, slow motion ecstasy. When winter arrives and takes everything away, it’s so difficult to say, “Good-bye,” like it’s difficult to let our children fly out of our nest and seek something we don’t know or have much control over. And so, the garden is our teacher again, and the lesson is so simple: LET GO. Don’t hold on to something that exists no longer except in our memories. Save our love and care for the new life that surely will arise. Surely will arise."
From my "The Garden: Perennial Reflections on Beginnings and Ends" Chapter 37 Letting Go
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